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The beleaguered rollout of heathcare.gov was quickly addressed by a "trauma team," deployed to recode portions of the platform strengthen privacy and better handle enrollment capacity, but state healthcare exchanges lack similar agility or funds.

For the first time, the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has auctioned off renewable energy leases in federal waters. A Providence, R.I.-based company won both of BOEM's July 31 auctions to lease more than 164,000 acres for wind energy development offshore the southern New England coast.

Training and equipment that Boston police received from the federal government saved lives after the April 15 Marathon bombings, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told a House panel May 9. He singled out the Urban Areas Security Initiative, a grant program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Shelter-in-place advisements, which were issued April 19 for Boston and nearby municipalities, are typically associated with hazardous biological, chemical or radiological materials, not dangerous fugitives. "All in Watertown, Cambridge, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Allston/Brighton, Brookline, and Boston should stay indoors," Gov. Deval Patrick wrote on his official Twitter account that day.

Hurricane Sandy is about 250 miles south-southeast of New York City and moving north-northwest at 18 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour as of 11 a.m. on Oct. 29, the National Hurricane Center says. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles, mostly southwest of the center of the storm.